More Animi Quotes

 We, on the contrary, make blessedness of life depend upon an untroubled mind, and exemption from all duties. Shortened Version: We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), Book I, Chapter 50.

 I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 2, line 2

 This seems to me a thing to be noticed, that just as the men of this country are, during this mortal life, more prone to anger and revenge than any other race, so in eternal death the saints of this land, that have been elevated by their merits, are more vindictive than the saints of any other region.Topographia Hibernica Part 2, chapter 55 (83); translation from Gerald of Wales (trans. John J. O'Meara) The History and Topography of Ireland ([1951] 1982) p. 91. (1188)

 Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.Letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712.Arthur Schopenhauer paraphrased this quotation in the first book of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: Musica est exercitium metaphysices occultum nescientis se philosophari animi. (Music is a hidden metaphysical exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is philosophizing.)

 For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.Book II, line 56-62.

 Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.Variant translation: Death therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature of the spirit we possess is something mortal.Book III, line 830-31.

 This seems to me a thing to be noticed, that just as the men of this country are, during this mortal life, more prone to anger and revenge than any other race, so in eternal death the saints of this land, that have been elevated by their merits, are more vindictive than the saints of any other region. Topographia Hibernica Part 2, chapter 55 (83); translation from Gerald of Wales (trans. John J. O'Meara) The History and Topography of Ireland ([1951] 1982) p. 91. (1188)

 We, on the contrary, make blessedness of life depend upon an untroubled mind, and exemption from all duties. Shortened Version: We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), Book I, Chapter 50.

 To the greatest and best God, and to the Virgin Mother of God, the illustrious King Sigismund of Poland had this bell cast to be worthy of the greatness of his mind and deeds in the year of salvation 1520. Latin inscription on the body of the Sigismund Bell Source: The Royal Sigismund Bell. The Wawel Royal Cathedral of St Stanislaus BM and St Wenceslaus M. Parafia Archikatedralna ?w. Stanis?awa BM i ?w. Wac?awa. Retrieved on 2010-01-18.